Submissions tagged with databases
(14 documents)
Biocuration Workflow Catalogue
As the first phase of a knowledge engineering study of biocuration workflows, we performed a preliminary task-modeling exercise on seven separate bioinformatics systems. This involved constructing …
Received 13 May 2009 18:00 UTC; Posted 13 May 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
DDBJ Activities: Contribution to the Research in Information Biology
DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan; http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ its database activities in 1986. From the beginning, DDBJ has been one of INSDC (International Nucleoti…
Received 01 May 2009 07:33 UTC; Posted 06 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
HGNC: The Why and How of Standardised Gene Nomenclature
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) aims to approve a unique gene symbol and gene name for every human gene. Standardisation of gene symbols is necessary to allow researchers and curators …
Received 27 April 2009 11:12 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Broadening Pfam Protein Sequence Annotations
Pfam is a database of conserved protein families or domains commonly used for genome annotation and sequence classification. It comprises two parts: (1) Pfam-A families, which are fully annotated a…
Received 28 April 2009 13:26 UTC; Posted 28 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Increasing Access To Bioinformatics Resources: Increase Community Curation by Increasing Your Community
The amount of biological data has risen exponentially over the last decade. Along with this rise, the number and types of bioinformatics resources has risen such that the sheer number of bioinforma…
Received 23 April 2009 19:00 UTC; Posted 24 April 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Cancer, Genetics & Genomics, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
A Framework for BioCuration Workflows (part II)
This is the second part of the talk ‘A Framework for BioCuration Workflows’, given by Martin Krallinger from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre at the ‘Text Mining for the BioCuration Work…
Received 22 April 2009 11:21 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Curation and annotation for BioModels Database, a resource of published quantitative kinetic models
BioModels Database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/) is a free resource for storing, viewing and retrieving published, peer-reviewed, quantitative models of bioche…
Received 22 April 2009 10:55 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Data, Databases, and Communities
Overview* Publishing landscape and challenges* Nature gateways and databases* NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database* A few other communication tools
Received 18 February 2009 20:02 UTC; Posted 20 February 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Identifying Data Sharing in Biomedical Literature
Many policies and projects now encourage investigators to share their raw research data with other scientists. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of these initiatives becau…
Received 04 August 2008 19:09 UTC; Posted 04 August 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Envisioning a data reuse registry
Repurposing research data holds many benefits for the advancement of biomedicine, yet is very difficult to measure and evaluate. We propose a data reuse registry to maintain links between primary r…
Received 04 August 2008 02:59 UTC; Posted 04 August 2008
Posted to: Bioinformatics
